Florent Thoumie
Senior Engineering Manager Traffic Engineering DNS at Roblox
California, United States
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Top SchoolFlorent Thoumie is a senior engineering manager based in California with 15+ years leading traffic engineering, DNS and edge infrastructure at scale for companies like Roblox and Facebook. He blends deep Unix and SRE roots—from running large carrier-grade services at BT and contributing to FreeBSD—with modern production engineering practices around CDN steering, load balancing and edge automation. At Roblox he oversees traffic, CDN-steering and DNS resolution; earlier at Facebook he helped build and secure the ISP-hosted CDN and container deployment systems, reflecting a career-long focus on reliability and performance of global platforms. Known as a DevOps enthusiast, he pairs hands-on systems expertise with strategic leadership, often automating operational toil out of critical-path systems. An early FreeBSD committer, he brings a pragmatic open-source mindset and protocol-level understanding that informs resilient, high-throughput network architectures.
2 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Systems, Networks and Security, MSc, Systems, Networks and Security at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueBaccalauréat, Physics, Baccalauréat, Physics at Lycee Van Gogh (Ermont, Val d'Oise)
English, French
Github Skills (15)
cloudflare10
weather-api10
dns10
curl10
weather10
ascii-art10
cli9
github-pages9
sweet9
javascript8
subdomain8
rewrite7
rust4
rust-lang3
rust-language3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
flobsx/headscale-proxied
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
flobsx/zmk-config-flobsx
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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